Official UK procurement notice
West London Direct Payments Service for Homelessness Prevention and Ending Rough Sleeping
Authority: Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea (Local council)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionThe Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea on behalf of the West London Housing Partnership (partner boroughs of RBKC, Hammersmith & Fulham, Brent, Ealing, Hillingdon, Hounslow and Harrow) wishes to engage with suppliers regarding capacity in the market to provide a match funded direct payment service for people who are at risk of homelessness to prevent homelessness occurring and/or who are at risk of rough sleeping to make it short lived and non-reoccurring.
The service will provide rapid access to funds for eligible households referred by an approved partner to enable a swift response to prevent homelessness or support a move away from rough sleeping.
The Council is seeking an organisation with demonstrable experience of delivering similar personalised budget or direct payment schemes. The Council intends to commit a minimum of £500,000 to this scheme and is looking for an organisation that is able to provide 100% match funding in order to maximise the impact of the councils’ investment.
This notice is issued for the purpose of understanding supplier appetite and the availability of suitable providers. Further information is set out in the attached Preliminary Market Engagement Questionnaire. Interested organisations are invited to review and respond to the questionnaire in full on the delta portal, the link can be found below.
Any queries relating to this market engagement exercise should be submitted to:
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CPV: Community health services · Health and social work services · Social services · Social work and related services
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedPipeline intelligence · planning stage: how this market runs before the tender is published
How Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea buys Social work and related services (CPV 8530), and who usually turns up
Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea’s own published record, next to the published market for the same work. Frameworks and DPS are kept out: they attract a different number of bids. Whole-market view: Social work and related services (CPV 8530) →
How the contest usually goes
Winner shares use published awards; bid and price charts use contested lots.
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How often small and medium firms win.
Share of awards where the winner’s size is known.
The counts under this question show how many awards have a known supplier size.
Small firms have won here. Neither number says whether you qualify; it describes who has been winning.
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How often local firms win similar work.
Winners with a registered address in the delivery region, out of awards with a known address.
Here, local means registered in Greater London.
A local branch does not count if the registered address is elsewhere.
Most of this buyer’s recorded winners are registered in Greater London.
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How long buyers here take to decide after bids close.
Middle value in days from the deadline to the first award notice, on competitions that published both dates.
Only decided tenders count, so slow ones still waiting are not in.
Half of these awards were announced within 107 days of the bid deadline.
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How often work is awarded with no recorded rival.
Direct awards and tenders where every published lot count shows one bid.
Both shares are minimums: some awards have no bid count.
Thin markets produce this too; it is not proof of a tailored specification.
Direct awards or one recorded bid are common here. Check the route before spending time on a bid.
How many bids did past lots attract?
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How many bids past lots received.
Each colour is a bid-count range. Only competed lots with a published count are included.
Past bids do not predict this tender.
1 bid33% / 22%
2–342% / 30%
4–617% / 32%
7+8% / 16%
How did awards compare with estimates?
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Where winning prices landed against estimates.
Each colour shows awards below, close to or above the published estimate, one lot at a time.
Past prices are a guide, not a bid price.
Below estimate22% / 42%
Within ±2%56% / 53%
Above estimate22% / 5%
Assess each lot i
What past awards tell you about each lot.
See the forecast, this buyer’s earlier suppliers and firms with relevant wins.
No supplier is confirmed as a bidder.
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What past awards tell you about each lot.
See the forecast, this buyer’s earlier suppliers and firms with relevant wins.
No supplier is confirmed as a bidder.
Open a lot for its forecast, this buyer’s previous supplier and possible competitors, from published award history, not a bid list
Lot #1CPV 8530Published estimate£500k
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How many bids this lot may attract.
The forecast uses similar past competitions. The bar shows either that forecast or past bid counts; the line below says which.
Each lot shows its own forecast based on its own category; forecasts for different lots of the same notice are not comparative. The bar shows 37 past lots.
A forecast, not a list of bidders.
1 bid22%
2–330%
4–632%
7+16%
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Where the award price may land.
The forecast uses similar awards and the buyer’s estimate. The band covers the middle half of likely prices.
No comparable awards for this lot yet.
A statistical guide from past awards, not a price to bid.
Who has supplied this buyer on similar work? i
Who has done similar work for this buyer.
Past contracts are matched by buyer, title and type of work.
A past supplier may not bid again.
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Who has done similar work for this buyer.
Past contracts are matched by buyer, title and type of work.
A past supplier may not bid again.
| Supplier | This buyer’s earlier contract | Lot | Award value | Why listed |
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| DePaul UKLive contract | Homelessness and Rough Sleeping Contract - West London Floating Support Serviceruns to Mar 2027 | — | £175k | Matched as the earlier contract |
Who could compete for this lot? i
Who could compete for this lot?
Firms with relevant past wins. On a framework, we show firms on that agreement.
None is confirmed as a bidder.
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Who could compete for this lot?
Firms with relevant past wins. On a framework, we show firms on that agreement.
None is confirmed as a bidder.
Candidate suppliers for this notice have not been worked out yet, so this is not a verdict that nobody fits.
About this data
- Source. Official UK public procurement notices (Find a Tender), reused under the Open Government Licence v3.0. New notices arrive through the day; the figures are rebuilt nightly.
- Two views, kept apart. The authority’s own track record and the wider market for the same kind of work sit side by side and are never mixed. Where the local picture is too thin, a figure widens to a broader market and says which one it used.
- Forecasts are labelled. The price forecast and its range, possible competitors and the earlier-work matches are our estimates from past awards: not published facts, not win chances and not price advice. Official notices do not say who is bidding.
- Every figure shows what it rests on. Not every notice publishes a bid count, a value or a delivery region, so each figure carries the number of records behind it, and one built on few records is marked as such. The on a figure explains it; the counting rules are in the methodology. Spotted something wrong? Tell us.
What this replaces i
Who has done similar work for this buyer.
Past contracts are matched by buyer, title and type of work.
50% title match.
A past supplier may not bid again.
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Who has done similar work for this buyer.
Past contracts are matched by buyer, title and type of work.
50% title match.
A past supplier may not bid again.
The prior contract this notice most likely re-tenders · matched by title and category (50% title match), the holder is not guaranteed to re-bid
Homelessness and Rough Sleeping Contract - West London Floating Support Service — held by DePaul UK; the published contract ends 31 Mar 2027.
Procedure terms & legal framework
From the official record- Legal basis
- UKPGA · 2023/54 Procurement Act 2023
- Procurement category
- Services
- Notice status
- Planned procurement
- Procurement threshold
- Below threshold
- Regulatory regime
- Light touch regime
- Commercial structure
- Stand-alone contract (no framework)
- Competition type
- Competitive procedure
- GPA / WTO covered
- Unspecified in notice
- Recurring procurement
- Unspecified in notice
- First published
- 14 Jan 2026, 16:05 GMT
- Last source update
- 14 Jan 2026, 16:05 GMT
- Authority reference
SP-L0274- FTS notice number
2026/S 000-003216- Latest notice
- Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-0605f5Find a Tender
How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
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Timeline
14 Jan 2026 → 1 Apr 2026 · 3 dates- Planning notice published281 days ago14 Jan 2026, 16:05 GMT
- Market engagement267 days ago28 Jan 2026, 23:59 GMT
Providers interested in this potential opportunity should complete the questionnaire on the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea's Delta Portal by no later than 12:00pm on Wednesday 28th January 2026. The link to the questionnaire can be found in the description of this notice. The Authority may conduct further engagement via email or meetings as required with potential Providers over January/February 2026.
- Contract starts205 days ago1 Apr 2026, 00:00 BST
Notice history
1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender- Preliminary market engagement notice published14 Jan 2026, 16:05 GMTUK2
Commercial outcome & contract awards
Pipeline notice- Awards (0)
- No award published
- Contracts (0)
- No contract published
- Bid statistics
- No aggregate bid statistics published
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
Official documents & specifications (1)
Official links; attachments are not copiedNotices published for this procedure
- Preliminary market engagement notice Preliminary market engagement notice on Find a Tender